| 100% | NEXTGEN | 7 | Like the newest model, familiarly |
| 58% | HITECH | 6 | Like the newest gadgetry, informally |
| 57% | IRANI | 5 | Like the news network Al-Alam |
| 57% | THAI | 4 | Like the New Year festival Songkran |
| 57% | TRADINGUP | 9 | Getting the new model |
| 56% | DAILY | 5 | Like the New York Times mini puzzle |
| 55% | RETOOL | 6 | Prepare for the new model year |
| 53% | LOCAL | 5 | Like the 11:00 news, usually |
| 52% | SHARP | 5 | Like the edge of a new knife |
| 52% | SEXY | 4 | Like the models in a swimsuit issue |
| 50% | AAA | 3 | Like the baseball of the New Orleans Baby Cakes |
| 50% | BARE | 4 | Like the emperor in "The Emperor's New Clothes" |
| 50% | SONNETS | 7 | "The New Colossus" and the like |
| 49% | SILKY | 5 | Like the hair of a model in a shampoo ad |
| 49% | SPARSER | 7 | Like the population of Alaska vis-à-vis New Jersey |
| 49% | OLDSMOBILE | 10 | Carmaker whose last new model was the Alero |
| 49% | TAXIS | 5 | Cabs, like the yellow ones in New York |
| 49% | AGEIST | 6 | Like the philosophy "Out with the old, in with the new"? |
| 48% | UNUSED | 6 | Like the stereotypical gym membership purchased on New Year's Day |
| 48% | HIDDEN | 6 | Like the identified car models inside this puzzle's long answers |
| 48% | DECO | 4 | Like New York's Chrysler Building, familiarly |
| 48% | HUMID | 5 | Like New York City in the summer |
| 48% | FAIRFAX | 7 | Thomas —, English parliamentary general; Commander-in-Chief of the New Model Army from 1645 |
| 47% | AGGREGATOR | 10 | News site like the Drudge Report |
| 47% | AAA | 3 | Like the play that the New Orleans Baby Cakes enjoyed until last year |
| 46% | THIRD | 5 | Like New Jersey among states admitted to the Union |
| 45% | STUDIOREMAKES | 13 | 2005's "Bad News Bears" and the like |
| 45% | LATEST | 6 | Like the "new-arrivals" in a clothing store |
| 45% | LIVE | 4 | Like the "New Year's Rockin' Eve" airing |
| 45% | EPISTOLIC | 9 | Like much of the New Testament |